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Distance Learning for Active Duty Army Soldiers
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By GetEducated Consumer Reporting Team
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One question active duty soldiers often ask regarding military education benefits:
“Will the military pay for me to earn my college degree online before I leave the service?”
The answer: Yes. {{ad91}}
“The way things are set up, almost any serviceperson should be able to get at least an associate degree while on active duty, because of the Military Tuition Assistance,” says Manfred F. Meine, professor of public administration at Troy University in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
Military Tuition Assistance (TA) is a Department of Defense program for active-duty military soldiers and personnel.
While provisions differ between branches of service, in TA provides benefits in general cover up to $250 per credit hour, with a maximum of $4,500 per year. Using these benefits active duty soldiers can potentially get a free college degree online while serving in the military.
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Learn more about free military tuition assistance for online education
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Expert Advice >
Online Education Financial Aid
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By Vicky Phillips, Chief Education Analyst
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Question:
I’m searching for an online bachelor’s in business or management. But no two online colleges charge the same cost for this degree. One school can charge $50,000 more for what looks like the very same distance degree to me. Is an expensive online college better than a cheap one? {{ad91}}
—Rayette, Boise, Idaho
Answer:
There is no relationship between cost and quality in online education. Paying more won’t get you “more” of an education, nor will it necessarily buy you an academically better degree. The cost—and therefore affordability—of any online degree is a function of four factors. It may surprise you to learn that none of these is correlated with educational quality.
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Learn the four factors affecting what your online degree costs
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Distance Degrees - Compare >
Online Degree Programs - Compare Distance Degrees
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When Maurice Rico, a senior process engineer in El Paso, TX, enrolled in Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business online degree program, a top ranked distance learning MBA, he wasn’t sure he had picked the best online school—until he participated in a mandatory, one-week online residency before classes began.
Rico, 40, flew from Texas to Indiana for the one-week online residency, paying airfare out of his own pocket (the school paid for housing and meals for the campus residency). The “very intense” week of coursework, case studies, and networking allowed him to meet his teachers and fellow online students.
Rico now says the online campus residency requirement confirmed that the Kelley Direct distance degree program was the right online MBA program for him. “It made me feel a lot better about how well-structured and solid it was,” Rico says.
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More about student retention for online degree programs
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Hot Careers >
Healthcare & Nursing
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By GetEducated.com Consumer Reporting Team
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A plane crashes into a chemical plant. Scattered amid the smoking wreckage lie the bodies of the dead and wounded. Nurse-in-training Adam Nelson approaches each survivor. But instead of speaking to the victims, Nelson clicks on their images. A text box appears on Nelson's computer screen, listing each patient's symptoms. Nelson is learning "triage" skills through a Second Life disaster simulation, part of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh's online bachelor's in nursing degree program. {{ad71}}Second Life is a virtual world where users interact in real time with each other, using three-dimensional versions of themselves, called avatars. |
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Distance Degrees - Compare >
Online Universities - Distance Learning Degrees
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The Get Educated consumer reporting team has uncovered some shocking news about online master's degree cost statistics.
Many public and state universities have begun offering the same master's degrees online as they've offered for decades on-campus. But buyer beware—a few are charging up to two times more for the convenience of online course delivery.
Compare Online Graduate School Costs
Increasingly, if you are considering an online graduate degree, the very same program may be available as a traditional residential degree and in an online learning format. {{RightSponsor46}}
Many public and state universities, suffering from declining tax support, have begun charging higher tuition and fees for the convenience of online education.
If your state university is offering online masters or doctorate degrees, compare tuition and fee schedules before you enroll. Doing so could save you thousands on your graduate school education.
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Learn more about the cost of online vs. traditional masters degrees
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